Entirely Unofficial Rest is History Catalogue and Interrogator

Thematic / Biographical series

31 Episodes 7 Series 4 Figures 2 Events 97 Books 86 Authors

This thematic/biographical era spans prehistory to modern political history, grouping episodes by topic or life to illuminate specific events, movements, and leadership. Series include "12 (or 13) Days of Christmas" (significant events from Dec 25–Jan 4, from early Christian history to African modernization), "America in 1968" (Vietnam, political upheaval, social change), "American Crusades" (Christianity’s influence on US foreign policy and warfare), "Amsterdam" (city’s rise from a 13th‑century fishing village to a financial hub), and "Australian Prime Ministers" (federal politics from 1901 onward). Sample episodes cover Britain’s greatest prime ministers, Viking history and popular culture, church architecture, French history in film, Rome’s worst emperor and Jacobite uprisings. Figures and topics discussed include Jeffrey Parker, Amani Reynos, Eva Perón’s secret burial (1955), poll taxes, Doggerland submergence, the Younger Dryas, Neanderthal extinction, and the Cretaceous–Paleogene event. Recommended books cited include The Geometry of Love, Face of Battle, History of the English‑Speaking Peoples, and A History of the World.

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Episodes by year

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2022

1 episode

The Most Disastrous Party in History

Feb 21, 2022

In this episode Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook compile and discuss a listener-sourced top ten of history's most disa…

2021

6 episodes

Top Ten Eunuchs

Nov 27, 2021

This episode of The Rest Is History is a themed "Top 10" on eunuchs. Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook survey examples …

China

Nov 27, 2021

Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook interview historian Michael Wood for a sweeping one-hour survey of Chinese hist…

Climate & Weather

Nov 27, 2021

Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook present a themed episode listing ten ways weather and climate altered history. …

Top Ten Mistresses

Nov 27, 2021

Recorded live at a podcast festival with Dominic Sandbrook absent (quarantining with COVID), Tom Holland is joined by P…

World Cup of Kings & Queens - Part 1

Nov 27, 2021

World Cup of Kings and Queens · Part 2

Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook discuss the Rest Is History "Kings and Queens of England World Cup," focusing o…

The UK’s Best Churches

Nov 27, 2021

In this episode Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook are joined by Rachel Morley, director of the Friends of Friendless Ch…

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Series in this era

7 series

Historical figures

4 tagged

Historical events

2 tagged

Quaternary Ice Age (ongoing)

1 episode

Younger Dryas

1 episode

Books

97 tagged

Authors

86 tagged

Thematic / Biographical series

Episodes by year

2022

The Most Disastrous Party in History

2021

Top Ten Eunuchs

China

Climate & Weather

Top Ten Mistresses

World Cup of Kings & Queens - Part 1

The UK’s Best Churches

Series in this era

Jack the Ripper - The Whitechapel Murders

Joan of Arc

Great World Cup Saga

London Week

Oil

Royal Albert Hall Orchestral Shows

World Cup of Kings and Queens

Historical figures

Armand D'Angor

Jeffrey Parker

John Klee

Mike Macbeth

Historical events

Quaternary Ice Age (ongoing)

Younger Dryas

Books

The Five

Dracula

Flashman (series )

Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution

Martin Chuzzlewit

Sherlock Holmes

Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

The Complete History of Jack the Ripper

The Sign of Four

The Three Musketeers

A Song of Ice and Fire (Game of Thrones) (series)

A Study in Scarlet

A Thousand Best Churches

Adventures in Time: Nelson, a Hero of the Seas

Alexander to Actium: The Hellenistic Age

American Notes

An American Uprising

An Officer and a Spy

Anne of Gaiosteen

Biographies of William Gladstone and Winston Churchill

Black Tutors

Bleak House

Britain Against Itself

Citizens

City of Dreadful Delight

Conquest of New Spain

Count of China

Diary of Matteo Ricci

Disorder, Hard Times in the 21st Century

Dominion

Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races

Fifth Son

Frankenstein

From Hell

From Hell

From Hell (comic)

Global Crisis

Great Expectations

Guinness Book of Records

History of England

History of the Peloponnesian War

Jane Eyre

Joan of Arc, The Image of Female Heroism

Kingdom by the Sea

La Reine Margot

Laughing Will I Die

Leopold's Letters

London Fog

Munich

Nana

Northumbrians

Oliver Twist